Optomechanical ring resonator for efficient microwave-optical frequency conversion

I-Tung Chen, Bingzhao Li, Seokhyeong Lee, Srivatsa Chakravarthi, Kai-Mei Fu and Mo Li ()
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I-Tung Chen: University of Washington
Bingzhao Li: University of Washington
Seokhyeong Lee: University of Washington
Srivatsa Chakravarthi: University of Washington
Kai-Mei Fu: University of Washington
Mo Li: University of Washington

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Phonons traveling in solid-state devices are emerging as a universal excitation for coupling different physical systems. Phonons at microwave frequencies have a similar wavelength to optical photons in solids, enabling optomechanical microwave-optical transduction of classical and quantum signals. It becomes conceivable to build optomechanical integrated circuits (OMIC) that guide both photons and phonons and interconnect photonic and phononic devices. Here, we demonstrate an OMIC including an optomechanical ring resonator (OMR), where co-resonant infrared photons and GHz phonons induce significantly enhanced interconversion. The platform is hybrid, using wide bandgap semiconductor gallium phosphide (GaP) for waveguiding and piezoelectric zinc oxide (ZnO) for phonon generation. The OMR features photonic and phononic quality factors of >1 × 105 and 3.2 × 103, respectively. The optomechanical interconversion between photonic modes achieved an internal conversion efficiency $${\eta }_{i}=(2.1\pm 0.1)\%$$ η i = ( 2.1 ± 0.1 ) % and a total device efficiency $${\eta }_{{tot}}=0.57{\times 10}^{-6}$$ η t o t = 0.57 × 10 − 6 at a low acoustic pump power of 1.6 mW. The efficient conversion in OMICs enables microwave-optical transduction for quantum information and microwave photonics applications.

Date: 2023
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